Cloud Security Alliance Makes Free Security Tools Available

There's a temptation when it comes to security in the cloud to limit the conversation to firewalls and the security paraphernalia that gets deployed at the edge of the network. But in reality, the conversation about security in the cloud needs to go much deeper than that.

To help move the cloud security providers further along in their understanding of these issues, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has come up with a stack of free governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) tools that cloud service providers or their customers can download here.

According to CSA executive director Jim Reavis, the organization wants to first make sure that the cost of GRC tools is not a limiting factor when it comes to cloud security. The CSA clearly recognizes that data security is a major customer issue when it comes to the cloud.

Reavis says the tools that CSA is providing are not meant to be the ultimate GRC solution. But the CSA does want to set some minimum guidelines for assessing data security in the cloud.

There are a lot of legitimate concerns about data security in the cloud. There are also a lot of people who are using these issues as a stalking horse because they feel threatened by cloud computing. The time has clearly come to start moving past simply discussing cloud security in order to start putting the matter to the test. And the toolkit from CSA is as good as any place to get started.

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